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you there. Hey, it's Alex, and welcome back to that trippy show. You might have noticed

Joe is not reading the intro today. He's traveling overseas and he'll be back next week.

Turns out, the guy actually works. Who knew?

This week though, we're really fortunate to welcome back our good friend, Trigg V Olson, who's been on the last couple shows but a lot more is happening in Ukraine and we wanted to get the latest to you and talk more about kind of what the implications are for the global war on democracy.

Trivie, welcome back.

Thanks, Alex.

It's good to be here.

I don't know how I'll fill Trippy shoes, but I'll try my bet.

Well, the Midwestern accent quotient on this show today is going to be infinity, so listeners have that to look forward to.

I'll tell you what, there's a lot of people on my former side, the Republican side, you think it's pretty funny. I'm trying to fill trippy shoes, but I'm happy to do.

Well, look, I mean, and you Joe and I have had a couple of conversations this week already about kind of how we're starting to connect the dots on what we're kind of dubbing this global war on democracy.

You know, we've all been kind of shaking our heads and saying, why isn't anybody else saying what we're saying?

And I wanted to just get your take,

thought that was a good place to start today.

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